BLACK OIL PLANT - STIMULATES THE APPETITE

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CELASTRUS PANICULATES LINN
​ is a deciduous shrubby climber with stems up to 23 cm in diameter and 18 metres high. The twigs are fairly smooth, reddish brown and densely covered with elongated whitish lenticels which are openings meant for diffusion of gases or respiration. The leaves are elliptic-ovate or obovate and serrate. The greenish-yellow flowers are 3.8 mm in diameter and are found on panicles which are 5 to 20 cm long. The capsules which are 1 to 1.3 cm in diameter are 3-lobed and bright yellow in colour. The seeds are completely enclosed in an orange-red aril.
Black oil plant

Medicinal Use of Black Oil Plant:

  • Promotes menstrual flow
  • Stimulates the appetite, acts as a laxative and works as an agent to cause vomiting.
  • Promotes the removal of mucous secretions from the bronchial tubes.
  • To strengthen and give tone to the stomach.
  • Cough, asthma, leprosy, headache and leukoderma.
  • Abortion.
  • As a nerve stimulant, a brain tonic and as an agent for checking rheumatic pains.

How to the Black Oil Plant:

  • The decoction of the leaves enables promotion of menstrual flow.
  • The decoction of the seeds takes care of items 2 to 5 under Medicinal Use.
  • The decoction of the bark induces abortion.
  • The oil from the seeds is used as a nerve stimulant, a brain tonic and as an agent for checking rheumatic pains.

Parts used: 

Seeds, leaves, bark and oil from the seeds.

​Dose:

Normal or as indicated above.

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